I finally rooted with unrevoked3 and installed a rooted version of the standard HTC rom.

The procedure is quite simple. Here it is (in detail). Obviously at your own risk…

• Download unrevoked3 from http://unrevoked.com/

• Launch reflash (I used the linux version). The phone reboots and now has an additional application that gives root rights to applications that request it.

• Install the “Rom Manager” from the market.

• Download a ROM to replace the one on the phone, copy it to the SD card.

  I took Official_FroYo_Market_fixed.zip which is available on

  http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741775

  and I also downloaded

  [http://android.adamg.co.uk/bravo/radio/32.43.00.32U\_5.09.00.20.zip](http://android.adamg.co.uk/bravo/radio/32.43.00.32 U_5.09.00.20.zip)

  for the “rom radio” (no idea what it is, but before I upgraded it too, everything worked except the video…)

• Launch the ROM manager and install the “Official_FroYo_Market_fixed.zip” rom by making a backup. The ROM manager will first download something else, this is normal.

• After reboot, launch the ROM manager and install “32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20.zip”, without backup this time, since we have already done it.

There you go, after this last reboot, you have a rooted Froyo.

I tested for 1 hour, and it works.

For your information, I had the Swisscom hotline for a long time on Wednesday. The person I spoke to assured me that the warranty remains valid for the hardware (however, they did not guarantee anything for the software aspects and compatibility with their network).

I told him that I would refer to this discussion in the event of a problem, so that he had to be sure, and he confirmed, adding that if I had it repaired, I could indicate that I had changed the ROM and it should not be touched (!)

Thank you for all this information! There you teach me something, I didn’t know that the software and hardware warranty were separate, I thought it was a whole (and it’s justified, because a software modification can cause hardware damage to the phone such as overheating, overclock, etc… in addition to instability). I say that, but we see crappy ROMs, like masterpieces that are more stable than the official versions.

However, it’s a shame that you don’t have proof, because there you can’t justify anything. It would have been necessary to have a copy of the telephone recording or an email with signature…

So it’s good to know, but not 100% reliable. The merchants can very well play it cool and repeat the phone as if they were laughing in your face because you didn’t read the general conditions carefully.

From what I know, the radio ROM is the information necessary for the software to interact with the phone’s hardware such as the antenna, the camera, wifi, etc… It is therefore very important! Many custom ROMs require flashing the radio to work properly.

You have to be careful, it’s a trick to brick the phone, especially when Vodafone announces that it’s coming in less than a week (see the link above).

I was also surprised by what this hotline person told me about the warranty, hence the fact that I asked him to repeat it twice. It is quite possible that the information is still false, but it is better than if he had told me the opposite.

As for separating hardware warranty from software, there are indeed cases where the two are linked (in particular if there is mechanics, like fan, hard disk head, etc.) but I believe that it It is up to them to demonstrate that the failure is actually linked to software modifications. But hey, I’m not a consumer rights specialist, and I’ve always had good contact with Swisscom, so I assume that they wouldn’t make a fuss on principle.

As for the reasons to root it: 1. to be safe from the next great marketing ideas from Vodafone, 2. to have the next updates quickly and 3. to be able to install applications that require root privileges. In particular, it seems to me that there are openconnect VPN clients – which I need – but they only work with root privileges.

Unrevoked lets you root without a goldcard, but don’t you need it for every update anyway?

Good morning,

So after a phone call with swisscom, I managed to get a date, it would be for Monday August 30 which unfortunately seems to coincide with the end of August/beginning of September in the news posted yesterday. On the other hand, on the Vodaphone UK forum, they have just announced the update for this Monday ([see here](http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/topic/70251-htc-desire-firmware -update-200810/)). This will not remove the *super* 360 service and co: you will have to uninstall manually despite error messages (nice) or completely reset the phone after the update (you can start backing up this weekend).

I still secretly hope that we will also obtain it sooner than the 30th, because I understood between the lines that he gave me the date of the 30th with a certain margin of safety. Well, in short, don’t hesitate to use the “menu -> about -> log updates -> check now” from next week because this would allow you to recover it before we receive the official notification which can take up to at 2 weeks (see moderator post vodafone).

For your information, he made it clear to me that changing the ROM VOID the warranty. So ultimately I think it’s up to the free interpretation of the hotline guy, because they contradict each other. And when I asked him to send me the general warranty conditions, he told me that I would not find anything on this subject in them. But I’m waiting to take a look.

Have a good weekend.

> Unrevoked lets you root without a goldcard, but don’t you need it for every update anyway?

I’m not sure I understand the meaning of this question. Once the ROM manager is installed, it takes 2 minutes to install any ROM (without PC, without goldcard, just the phone), including to revert to the original ROM in the event of a problem.

It’s funny to see that they impose a délai on us to test the software and that they give us something buggy.

Well, I have no worries:smileytongue:

Is Vodaphone ROM multilingual? Surely… but we can expect a délai from Swisscom to test its own services.

Clarification: you come back to an original rooted ROM and not an “After-sales service ready ROM” for those who are wondering. Finally I believe.

I’m not talking about the flash, but the OTA update. On all the forums, Orange desires that were rooted and flashed in HTC ROM had big bugs with the Froyo update if they removed the goldcard from their laptop before.

Yes indeed, the first “backup” of the rom with the ROM Manager is done with the device once it has been rooted, so the rom in question is the rooted one.

After a few days of use I confirm the initial positive impression. No crash, no problem, and I was able to manually delete the .zip from the ROM all the applications in /system/app/ which are not useful to me (Facebook, teeter and other Flickr) so as not to see them appear in all the menus and submenus on my phone. Incidentally, these applications can be downloaded in the traditional way via the market.

Incidentally, the ROM Manager offers a functionality for updating ROMs via the network, and is capable of consulting repositories on the web on its own.

Hello everyone,

Good news on Monday 08/23/2010! Froyo 2.2 is AVAILABLE, the installation has just been completed on my Dessire, and I am amazed by the quality of the videos 😉 Everything works perfectly!

Happy downloading everyone

Anyone having a sync problem with Exchange?

Because for my Apple, since the update it is no longer possible to sync and after research it is a known problem, resolved but not in the Swisscom release apparently…..

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9455

Just a little problematic when you have all these contacts on Exchange ;=)

Sbdroopy +1…

Indeed, it is no longer possible to synchronize contacts. The calendar works, like emails, but not contacts… grrrr…

need to update htc sync too…if you read the news on the different sites and on the htc:smileyhappy site:

and everything will work without problems at least for me it works flawlessly and I have a desire for swisscom.

I wasn’t clear in my post… sorry… it’s about push synchronization via the native Google module for Exchange server.

what exactly doesn’t work for you… for me the syncro with google exchange works even better than before

if I can give you some advice despite it being a forum, it remains that of the official reseller avoided giving this kind of information or you risk being prosecuted for having encouraged to damage the products under garaous see what I mean) and please never forget to remember that whoever does this kind of manipulation does it at their own risk, no one can guarantee not to end up with a paper brick which will only be used to hold their mail 😉 just in passing (I have a few years of experience as a mod) thank you for the understanding

To answer your questions, employees are not always informed of the smallest details about the devices. They know the basics of the devices but imagined for just a second knowing the smallest details… Android, RIM, Symbian, Windows Mobile, iOS, the various Swisscom products and so on… They try to do their best but it It’s not always easy. And you have 14 days to return the device, right? Who is stopping you from checking that it is not brander operator?

In short, the HTC desire is in 2.2 since the (admittedly useless and long) verification by Swisscom technicians, to be sure that all the parameters (GPRS, MMS, Postcard and others) work well with their network. And if that doesn’t go quickly enough, a Gold Card and a Froyo ROM and presto it’s good…

But there’s no point denigrating Swisscom because not everyone here knows how to use an HTC desire (or not)…

When you don’t understand something about

Good morning,

I’m glad to see I’m not the only one having issues with the update:

- after downloading the applications, the phone tells me that it is impossible to install the application

- sudden closure of applications (unknow reason -18), HTC application or not

- unable to transfer applications to SD card

- it is impossible to make backups of the phone, not to mention the fact that I cannot install any application that could do this

All of these issues have existed since update 2.2. I naturally contacted HTC support at the end of November. 4 or 5 calls of min. 30 minutes with the HTC “specialists” to whom you naturally have to explain the problems each time, and never any solution. I finally resigned myself to sending my Desire for repair to a Swisscom shop and I naturally specified ALL the problems and expressly asked to do a downgrade.

10 days later, nothing has been changed and especially no downgrade. I contacted HTC again in a slightly less polite manner and as a result they really sent my problems to their technical department. But after 1 week of waiting, they managed to give me very complete answers, but which had nothing to do with my problems.

At the same time, I have contacted Swisscom and I hope that they will find me a viable solution by then…